Ideal Style For Modern And Traditional Home

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Swags and tails are a classical style of dressing for bay windows. This style is ideal for traditional and modern homes because you can make the swags as ornate or a simple as you wish. Making a feature or focal point of a bay window is a great way to add the ‘wow’ factor to your home.

Swags and tails can be an ornate and elaborate window dressing which offers a stylish and professional look to your bay. If you opt for made to measure curtains many retailers will also install them for you which will save you the hassle of trying to get the evenness of the swags along with ensuring the looping effect is identical on all curtains.

However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t fitted swags and tails yourself, because you can! Just ensure that you have the right style of curtain track in place, combined with a little bit of patience and care

Modern homes can benefit from the simplest swathes of curtain fabric looped over curtain poles to create a stunning window dressing. For this type of dressing you’ll also have to consider using blinds or voiles if you don’t want passers-by looking into your home.

You can also go theatrical and create a window dressing which incorporates an abundance of full length curtains, swags or a covered pelmet, and ornate tie-backs. Think along the lines of manor houses and stately homes where bay window curtains consist of luxury fabrics with bobble trims, and immaculate swags and bows. This extravagant style looks at its best on large bay windows as it can cut-out a considerable amount of light, however, the overall look is elegant and sophisticated.

Another variation on this window dressing style is to only use swags – these are created by looping the swags over curtain poles – there are no curtains as such as this window dressing is purely for show. As mentioned above you’ll have to use voiles or contrasting coloured curtains if you want to be able to draw curtains at night or need daytime privacy.

Modern homes can use the same swag effects and rather than use medium weight curtain fabrics substitute these for floaty sheers or voiles – this alternative is perfect for small bay windows.

Think about the size of your bay, how much light you need, the overall effect and impact you want your bay windows to make on your rooms before you make your final decision as to which style of swags and tails to use.